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Monday, November 26, 2012

Cyber Monday Scramble: hot last-minute deals!

Aaaaah yes. Every year at this time, I do what I like to call the "Cyber Monday Scramble." I find myself with about 20 tabs going on my browser, trying to determine exactly which retailers I'd like to give my hard-earned cash to before the Cyber Monday deals go bye-bye. If you're like me, you're probably doing the same thing right about now, so allow me to add to your confusion with some last-minute hot deals that have just been brought to my attention (by the way, I just did another update on the Cyber Monday Roundup, including some deals that I'm not going to mention in this post).

can I make an honest comment, please? While I appreciate all the hard work you do, updating your blog several times a day, I don't have the time to check in all the time...and I don't receive your email blasts until between 2 and 3 AM the following day.

I miss most every goodie offer you find. :-(

is there a way to send it out earlier....or, like with these Cyber Monday deals, as soon as you find out the scoop?

I think that you may be misunderstanding the concept of my email newsletter. The reason it comes to you so late in the day is because its purpose is to deliver all of the posts i've written from the previous day. It's automated, therefore I don't physically send it every night. The Feedburner service sends it on my behalf to everyone who chooses to subscribe.

Even if I were to schedule it to deliver at an earlier time everyday, like for example at 3pm, that would mean that any posts I write after 3pm would not be emailed to you until the NEXT day at 3pm. So that would be much later than what you're getting now.

While I completely understand what you're asking, I don't have the means, or the permission, to send out additional emails to the people who have subscribed to my daily newsletter. They have all signed up for one email per day, and that's exactly what the service gives them.

As for missing the hot deals I post throughout the day, I would suggest perhaps following me on twitter or Facebook (links are at the top of the blog) because everytime I do a blog post, I immediately let all of my followers in both places know that it's up (literally within seconds of publishing it). So that's definitely the best way to keep track of what's going on here if you can't check the blog a few times throughout the day.